Work bench is messy again - didn't take long!
As soon as I found the AWOL part, I glued it in place so it wouldn't bust out again. Here are two pics of the right fuselage half with a bunch of detail work done. The part I had lost is the one with the two oxygen gauges on it and the yellow wires coming out (my add) just in front of the breaker panel. Above the Oxygen panel is the blue regulator (kit-supplied) to which I added a home made hose made of solder wrapped in a strand of speaker wire. Close to where the hose ends you can see a flare pistol which I fashioned out of plastic card.
The breaker panel came with the kit and I simply painted the labels white and scratched some inscriptions in. There will need to be another electrical panel added behind and above the breaker panel a more yellow spaghetti puking out the back end but I'll need to figure out a sequence of how to do this since much of it wraps around the bulkhead behind the pilot which needs to be installed on the fuselage.
I also spent a bit more time on the wings today. The areas exposed by the flaps had to be attended to since the gaps between the upper and lower wing halves were visible. With reference to photos, I made some ribs with lightening holes which looked much better:
The area where the wing and fuselage meet had the upper wing plastic thinned to more realistically resemble the thin sheet metal at this point, and there's another gap that needs to be dealt with:
Here, I added a scrap of thick card that will be sanded smooth and trimmed to match the profile of the wing sheet metal.
That's it for today, and another weekend has gone by far too quickly. Thanks for checking in.